Items of Interest January 23, 1904 Issue

Items of Interest

The Germanic Museum of Harvard has received from a committee of German artists and scientists interested in the museum, the collection made in Germany of copies of the best work of Nuremberg and Augsberg goldsmiths and silversmiths from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. In the collection are imitations of about fifty-five cups, basins, and dishes of various designs, many of them of great beauty and historic interest. The copies are made of bronze, gilded and silvered by electroplating.

Among the famous cups copied are the Landeshadenbund cup from the Museum of Gratz; a cup presented to Martin Luther by the Wittenberg town council, and the Corvinus cup presented to the Vienna Council by King Corvinus of Hungary in 1642.

The annual report of the Postmaster General for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, shows that the receipts from ordinary revenue rose to $131,984,535 for the year, an increase of $12,026,306 over the preceding year: that money order receipts rose to $2,239,908, an increase of $350,091 for the year. The total receipts showed a gain of $12,376,396, but expenses rose to $138,784,488, an increase over the preceding year of $13,998,791. The deficit for the year is $4,560,045, which was more than $1,000,000 less than was estimated.

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